U.S. Senate

Supports making child care affordable and preparing workers for artificial intelligence and automation.

Says targeted tariffs can help but opposes blanket tariffs as a tax on families; wants to return tariff power to Congress and close corporate tax loopholes.

Supports restoring an expanded child tax credit, more affordable child care, more attainable housing, protecting overtime pay and stronger antitrust enforcement.

Defends the Trump administration's tariffs as a way to level the playing field with other countries and says he wants to keep using them to protect Nebraska agriculture.

Supports overturning Citizens United, publicly funded elections, a ban on stock trading by members of Congress, and barring former members from becoming lobbyists.

Supports overturning Citizens United, the DISCLOSE Act, independent redistricting commissions, term limits and age limits for Congress, and a ban on stock trading by members of Congress.

Supports voter-verifiable paper records, election audits and access to early and mail voting, and favors a 'talking filibuster' in the Senate.

Says he has voted five times for the SAVE Act to bring voter ID requirements nationwide, and supports keeping the Senate filibuster.

Opposes 'blank checks' to foreign governments and supports ending long overseas conflicts.

Opposes U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

Says Congress must reclaim its war powers and that military aid should have clear goals, transparency and civilian safeguards.

Says the U.S. must deter China; backs limits on foreign adversaries buying farmland and on exports of advanced chips to China, and says Iran must never have a nuclear weapon.

Says he wants to bring down health care costs for American families.

Supports expanding Medicare and Medicaid to eventually cover every American.

Supports the Break Up Big Medicine Act to separate insurers from providers and pharmacies, Medicaid drug price negotiation without pharmacy benefit managers, and restoring rural hospital funding.

Supports expanding federal negotiation of prescription drug prices beyond the current Medicare program.

Supports securing the southern border, expanding enforcement, and deporting people who have committed crimes and others who have no claim to remain.

Supports border security, mandatory E-Verify, more immigration court funding and guest worker programs as part of comprehensive reform; calls the large increase in ICE funding wasteful without more accountability.

Supports a secure border and an earned path to citizenship for long-term residents, with enforcement focused on violent offenders; opposes a blanket deportation approach.

Supports the Trump administration's border enforcement and says he voted for $175 billion to fund it; cosponsors a bill to end automatic citizenship for children of temporary visa holders and people in the country illegally.

Supports legalizing marijuana nationwide for medical and recreational use.

Supports federal rescheduling of marijuana and says the federal government should stop treating cannabis like the most hazardous drugs.

Says concentrated THC from cannabis is a public health risk, especially for children, and that federal reclassification should come with strong guardrails.

Pledges to protect Social Security without benefit cuts and calls on Congress to act before the program's trust fund insolvency date.

Supports eliminating the income cap on Social Security taxes.

Pledges never to vote to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits or raise the retirement age, and supports applying the Social Security tax to income above the current cap.

Supports breaking up agriculture monopolies, right-to-repair laws, mandatory country-of-origin labeling, year-round E15 and barring some foreign countries from buying Nebraska farmland.

Opposed the 2026 tariff waiver on imported ground beef, says growing the U.S. cattle herd is the way to lower beef prices, and has urged the administration to press China to buy more U.S. farm goods.

Supports making higher education more affordable, reducing student debt and expanding trade schools.

Supports fully funded public schools.

Says wealthy individuals and highly profitable corporations should pay more, while working and middle-class families are protected.

Supports the 2025 tax and spending law he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts, including no federal tax on tips and overtime, and says it ended federal income tax on Social Security for 88% of seniors.

Says he is personally pro-life but believes government should not make health decisions for people.

Says he supports the Second Amendment and the right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms, along with gun safety education in schools.

Says he voted for the ROAD to Housing Act, which includes his Streamlining Rural Housing Act, to reduce regulations and lower housing costs.

Supports repealing the PATRIOT Act to end government surveillance of citizens.